THE BUTTERFLY'S BURDEN

THE BUTTERFLY'S BURDENPoetry. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Paperback, 348 pages. 9. 0" x 5. 9" From the press: Mahmoud Darwish was the most acclaimed poet in the Arab world. The Butterflys Burden presents three recent books in a single volume, each translated into English for the first time and presented side by side with the Arabic: The Strangers Bed (1998), Darwishs first collection of love poems; State of Siege (2002), a terse, politically charged sequence written in

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The speaker in this poem comes from a long tradition—of FREAKS

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